4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jason Gerecke <killert...@gmail.com> commit 2a5e597c6bb1b873e473e5f57147e9e5d2755430 upstream. The wacom_get_hdev_data function is used to find and return a reference to the "other half" of a Wacom device (i.e., the touch device associated with a pen, or vice-versa). To ensure these references are properly accounted for, the function is supposed to automatically increment the refcount before returning. This was not done, however, for devices which have pen & touch on different interfaces of the same USB device. This can lead to a WARNING ("refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free") when removing the module or device as we call kref_put() more times than kref_get(). Triggering an "actual" use- after-free would be difficult since both devices will disappear nearly- simultaneously. To silence this warning and prevent the potential error, we need to increment the refcount for all cases within wacom_get_hdev_data. Fixes: 41372d5d40 ("HID: wacom: Augment 'oVid' and 'oPid' with heuristics for HID_GENERIC") Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gere...@wacom.com> Reviewed-by: Ping Cheng <ping.ch...@wacom.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c +++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c @@ -611,8 +611,10 @@ static struct wacom_hdev_data *wacom_get /* Try to find an already-probed interface from the same device */ list_for_each_entry(data, &wacom_udev_list, list) { - if (compare_device_paths(hdev, data->dev, '/')) + if (compare_device_paths(hdev, data->dev, '/')) { + kref_get(&data->kref); return data; + } } /* Fallback to finding devices that appear to be "siblings" */